Acer saccharum ssp. nigrum (F.Michx.) Desmarais (black maple), bark
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2005 – 2012
Acer saccharum ssp. nigrum (F.Michx.) Desmarais (black maple), bark is tremendously variable on this species, young trees develop a smooth gray-brown bark, with age the bark becomes deeply furrowed with long irregular thick plates or ridges sometimes quite scaly